9.11.2001: Where were you?

September 11, 2001 – One of those days you’ll never forget where you were. I was working at a Detroit television station, producing the noon newscast.

At the time the first plane went into the North Tower, I was out of the newsroom.

One of our videotape editors ran toward me when I came back into the newsroom and started pointing at one of our TV monitors.

He said “check out the wild pictures from New York.” At the time, we weren’t aware that a plane had crashed into the building and it wasn’t an accident! We talked about how hard it would be for firefighters to fight a towering inferno.

There weren’t a lot of people in the newsroom at the time because most people didn’t arrive until around nine o’clock in the morning.

Some people started coming in and rushed to see the TV’s, they’d heard the story on the radio.

It was about that time when another plane slammed into the South Tower and then we all knew something wasn’t right, we were under attack.

The world changed forever. The lives of an entire generation of people changed forever.

It’s a day none of us can or will be able to forget. We must not also forget the innocent people who lost their lives and their families who have to endure the pain of not having them each day and every anniversary of 9/11.

Classic Song Flashback: Only Time – Enya